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Middle School Books - See Below
Here are the 2008-2009 Middle School books we are reading for the contest. Check back for more information. At the bottom of this page are last year's books.
| Title | Author | Genre | Lexile |
| Alchemyst: the secrets of the immortal… | Scott | Fantasy | |
| All the lovely bad ones: a ghost story | Hahn | Ghost stories | |
| Blue fingers: a ninja's tale | Whitesel | Historical fiction | 800 |
| Breathe: a ghost story | McNish | Ghost stories | |
| Brothers, boyfriends, & other criminal minds | Lurie | Realistic Fiction | |
| Chance Fortune and the outlaws | Berryhill | Fantasy | |
| Cross my heart and hope to spy | Carter | Adventure | |
| Dark water rising | Hale | Historical fiction | |
| Elijah of Buxton | Curtis | Historical fiction | |
| Epic | Kostick | Science Fiction | 880 |
| Feathers | Woodson | Multicultural | 760 |
| First Light | Stead | Adventure | |
| Go big or go home | Hobbs | Adventure | |
| In the cards: love | Fredericks | Realistic Fiction | 650 |
| Life as we knew it | Pfeffer | Science Fiction | 770 |
| London Eye Mystery | Dowd | Mystery | |
| Middle school is worse than meatloaf | Holm | Realistic Fiction | |
| My mother the cheerleader | Sharenow | Historical Fiction | |
| Night of the howling dogs | Salisbury | Adventure | |
| Paint the Wind | Ryan | Multicultural | 780 |
| Peak | Smith | Adventure | 780 |
| Peeled | Bauer | Realistic Fiction | 620 |
| Raven's gate | Horowitz | Fantasy | |
| Reaching for the sun | Zimmer | Realistic Fiction | |
| Red moon at Sharpsburg | Wells | Historical fiction | |
| Revolution is not a dinner party | Compestine | Historical fiction | |
| Schooled | Korman | Realistic Fiction | |
| Skulduggery pleasant | Landry | Fantasy | |
| Taken | Bloor | Science Fiction | |
| Tales of the cryptids | Halls | Nonfiction | IG1160 |
| The floating island | Haydon | Fantasy | |
| The golden dream of Carlo Chuchio | Alexander | Adventure | |
| The mysterious Benedict society | Stewart | Science Fiction | 840 |
| The Secret Life of Sparrow Delaney | Harper | Ghost stories | |
| The wall: growing up behind the Iron Curtain | SIS | Graphic novel;biography | |
| The Wednesday wars | Schmidt | Realistic Fiction | |
| Theodosia and the serpents of chaos | LaFevers | Fantasy | 800 |
| Waiting for normal | Conner | Realistic Fiction | |
| What the moon saw | Resau | Realistic Fiction | 750 |
| Zen and the art of faking it | Sonnenblick | Realistic Fiction | |
2007-2008 Middle School Name That Book
| Airball: My Life in Briefs |
| Avalon High |
| Bar code Tattoo |
| Black Duck |
| Black Tattoo |
| Born to Rock |
| Bread and roses, too |
| Dairy Queen |
| Eclipse |
| Everlost |
| Fashion disaster that changed my life |
| Gideon the Cutpurse |
| Heat |
| Hit the road |
| Home, and Other Big, Fat Lies |
| I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You |
| Invention of Hugo Cabret |
| Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life |
| Jumping the scratch |
| Kampung boy |
| La Linea |
| Lambkins |
| Leven Thumps and the whispered secret |
| Loud silence of Francine Green |
| Magyk |
| Mergers |
| Music Thief |
| Notes from the Midnight Driver |
| One kingdom: Our lives with animals |
| Out of Patience |
| Pieces of Georgia |
| Runaway |
| Saving the world and other extreme sports |
| Seer |
| Shackleton's Stowaway |
| Shug |
| Sparrow |
| Titan's curse |
| Warrior Heir |
| Wizard, the Witch, and Two Girls from Jersey |
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